Fedora Hardware :: Adding New Drives Causes FC To Hang On Boot?
Mar 29, 2010
Fedora hanging during boot when new drives are connected.
I'm running an FC12 install on a 750gig Samsung SATA drive. BIOS is set for drives to be AHCI
I've got 3 other identical 750's, two of which have never been used (as in never been written to). None of the drives have any jumpers set on them, as I've read that SATA handles that. At some point, all 4 drives were connected, and I had formatted one of the drives and backed some data up to it. But a reboot left me with FC hanging on load and the solution was to unplug all 3 other drives. I left it alone for a month.
Troubleshooting this weekend, I found with just my active drive and one of the untouched drives connected, FC still hangs. What I mean by hanging is that the blue background appears with the un-filled 'F' logo which filles diagnally under normal conditions. Mine will not begin to fill, and keyboard commands are not recognized.
It almost resembles a master/slave problem, but I thought that was gotten rid of with SATA. I tried setting the BIOS to use IDE-compatibility mode and set the order of the drives but the problem was the same, though I did not try any jumper arrangements.
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aic7xxx 0000:05:04.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
scsi6 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0
<Adaptec 3940 Ultra SCSI adapter>
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aic7xxx 0000:05:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
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Anyone ever see anything like this on bootup?
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Code:
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** Warning -- SELinux relabel is required. ***
*** Disabling security enforcement. ***
*** Relabeling could take a very long time, ***
*** depending on file system size. ***
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# cd /mnt/local
# rm -f .autorelabel
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ATHEROS ar8132 ethernet controller.
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System Specs:
Ubuntu 10.04 Beta, 2.6.32-16 Kernel
MSI N275GTX Twin-Frozr 896MB
MSI N210GT 512MB (got it for VDPAU on an HDTV )[code].....
I'm not inclined to believe the problem is here. I don't even get a bootsplash, let alone XServer to start. The system hangs after a flurry of HDD activity. Checked partition, and it's ok.
/var/log/boot.log
Code:
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/sbin/fsck.xfs: XFS file system.
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(1) Setting sensors limits "Rather than invoking init scirpts through /etc/init.d, use the service( utility, e.g. service S49console-setup start
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